I'm going to recommend the Bay Area though since there is so much to see here. Lots of Parks and Museums. Santa Cruz with it's boardwalk, Historic Sacramento. Maybe we could all rent a camping sight and have an outdoor sleep over. We could sit around the campfire and tell tall tales and ghost stories while we make s'mores. In the morning we could make pancakes with home made sweet butter
Jema
I’m going to hijack Jema’s post to put the date and place at the top of this thread:
Our date and place are 99% certain. (There are 9 months to go, so something strange might happen between now and then.)
Only one person said that he would make it on Friday afternoon. We emailed back and forth and decided that we would be talked out before anyone else arrived on Saturday, hence we have decided to have the MoM for only two days. Note that we will be beginning on Saturday, instead of Friday.
2010 West Coast MoM
Saturday, June 19 to Sunday, June 20
In a rural area near Healdsburg, CA
(an hour north of the Golden Gate Bridge)
The site has plenty of parking space for camping trailers and RVs. There is a grassy area for anyone who’d like to bring a tent and sleeping bag. There are motels about 10 minutes away in Healdsburg (and cheaper motels in Windsor, about 20 minutes away). Guerneville, a small town with the third highest percentage of gay and lesbian residents of any census tract in the U.S. is 15 miles (and 40 minutes by winding rural roads) away from the site. It’s another 15 miles (and 25 minutes) from Guerneville to Jenner, on the coast at the mouth of the Russian River.
The average daily high for the period is 88° and the average nightly low is 53°. These are “average” and it’s possible to have days that reach 100° or have the fog roll in from the coast and the night drop down to the low 40s. Rain is highly unlikely, though has been known to happen. (Average for the entire month of June is about a tenth of an inch.)
For further information, send a <Private Message> to Jesus. Include your regular email address to which attachments (including a PDF map to the site) can be sent. More details will be forthcoming when we get to within a couple of months of the dates.